The Godfather

Written by Mario PuzoThis book is the novel about mafia, gangsters and underworld.The story started in New York and Sicily in 1945.

Michael Corleone was a son of the Godfather, Don Vito Corleone. He did not want to be like his family members, the gangster. He had a girlfriend Kay. Don Corleone didn’t want to start the drug business with Sollozzo. Sollozzo killed his best friend Luca and wanted to kill him, but Don Corleone had survived. Michael and his brother Sonny thought, that the traitor was driver Paulie, so they killed him. Michael’s father was important person and had been in danger, when he was in hospital, without bodyguards. Michael wanted to kill the police captain McCluskey, because he sold out himself to Sollozzo. They would like to have a peace, so they would like to meet Michael, who wanted revenge.



They were in restaurant, when Michael shot Sollozzo to head and McCluskey to heart. He had to escape from Big Apple, so came to Sicily, where he forgot his girlfriend Kay and had married Apollonia, the beautiful Sicilian girl. They were happy together. One day Apollonia had learned driving from Michael and drove the car close to the house. Michael saw explosion. His wife was dead. Don Corleone wanted peace, because somebody killed his oldest son. During the meeting with other Godfathers he applied the peace. After that Michael came home from Sicily. When Michael came back, he had met Kay and got married. Father told him, that he must be careful, because Barzini wants to kill him during the planned meeting. Don Corleone died a natural death in his garden, when he played with his grandson.



During the funeral Tessio, the friend of Michael, told to Michael, that Barzini wants to meet him. Michael was thinking that traitor will be Clamenza, not Tessio. Michael didn’t want to be dead men, so he prepared murder of Godfathers in New York.He made it and had all what he wanted to have, but he became the same person as his relatives had been before, the gangster.